Is Truth Stranger?

with Colin McAdam and Graeme Macrae Burnet

Hosted by Peter Schneider

In Person Fiction

Tuesday

Oct , 2022

6:00pm

Eastern

Christ Church Cathedral

414 Sparks St. • Ottawa

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Colin McAdam · Photo by Lisa Myers Graeme Macrae Burnet

I have long been convinced that Colin McAdam is a literary genius. What’s extraordinary is that each of the books he writes is a totally distinct type of genius. Every time. He’s in a league of his own.

Max Porter

Join us for an evening with two acclaimed storytellers asking us to consider if the world as we see it, is the world as it is. Is it our narrators who are unreliable, or might it be reality itself?

Colin McAdam, winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, returns with a chilling tale of a grieving novelist and his son who fall sway to a twilit world of desperate wanderers, mad geneticists, and noble, dangerous beasts. Black Dove celebrates the value and shortfalls of storytelling, finding light in the darkness to conjure a tender portrait of childhood’s end.

Graeme Macrae Burnet makes is Ottawa debut with his latest Booker nominated novel, Case Study, a meditation on truth, sanity, and the instability of identity. As playful as it is sinister, Case Study blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination.

PLEASE NOTE: For the safety and comfort of all patrons, masks are required to attend in person.

Most people coming by car park for free at the Supreme Court of Canada on Wellington St.

Ticket holders unable to attend in person can request access to the livestream. Livestream links will be sent about an hour prior and will remain active for 48 hours. Please email leslie@writersfestival.org to request a link.

Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books.

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The Authors

Colin McAdam

Colin McAdam has written for Harper’s and The Walrus. His novel Some Great Thing won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the U.K. His second novel, Fall, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and awarded the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. He lives in Toronto.

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Graeme Macrae Burnet is one of the UK's leading contemporary novelists. His novels, which include the Booker Prize-shortlisted His Bloody Project, have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives and works in Glasgow.